Clinical Issues Committee

Jonathan Carter, MD FASMBS
Chair

Wesley Vosburg, MD FACS DABOM FASMBS
Co-Chair

Corrigan McBride, MD MBA FACS DABOM ABS-FPD FASMBS
Executive Council Liaison & Senior Past Chair

ASMBS Staff Liaison

Leslie Vinson

Members

Cheguevara Afaneh, MD FACS FASMBS
Vance Albaugh, MD PhD FACS FASMBS
Mohamed Ali, MD FACS FASMBS
Maria Altieri, MD MS
Ali Aminian, MD FACS FASMBS
Toms Augustin, MD MPH FACS
Dan Azagury, MD
T. Javier Birriel, MD FACS FASMBS
Salvatore Docimo, DO MS
Dan Eisenberg, MD MS, Immediate Past Chair
Sofiane El Djouzi, MD MS MBA DABOM FRCS FACS
John Fam, MD FASMBS
Alvaro Galvez Lima, MD FASMBS
Saber Ghiassi, MD MPH FACS FASMBS
Brandon Grover, DO FACS FASMBS



Saber Ghiassi, MD MPH FACS FASMBS
Brandon Grover, DO FACS FASMBS
Marcelo Hinojosa, MD FACS FASMBS
Juliet Holder Haynes, MD MBA MS ABOM
Zhamak Khorgami, MD
Guilherme Mazzini, MD PhD FASMBS
Fady Moustarah, MD MPH
Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD FACS
Sabrena Noria, MD PhD FASMBS
Rodolfo Oviedo, MD FACS FICS DABS-FPDMBS
Pavlos Papasavas, MD FASMBS
Bruce Schirmer, MD
Faiz Shariff, MD FACS FASMBS
Thomas Shin, MD PhD
Timothy Shope, MD

Ad Hoc Literature Review & Copyediting Member

Kara Kallies, MS

IH Clinical Issues Committee Liaisons

Lillian Craggs-Dino, DHA RDN LDN CLT, Chair
Laura Aylward, PhD, Co-Chair

Mission

  • To improve the care and treatment of people with obesity and related diseases
  • To be the recognized authority and resource on metabolic and bariatric surgery
  • To advance the science and understanding of metabolic and bariatric surgery

Description

The Clinical Issues Committee creates evidence-based guidelines and position statements regarding clinical issues to enhance quality in metabolic and bariatric surgery patient care and to support ASMBS member practices. The Committee also performs systematic review of existing statement and guidelines, researches the current data, and makes appropriate updates and revisions as evidence becomes available. The committee is also charged with developing time-sensitive statements or recommendations related to new developments in the field of bariatric surgery.

Objectives

  • Identify existing and emerging gaps in guidelines/position statements
  • Increase understanding of clinical issues
  • Establish and disseminate standards and protocols
  • Establish timeline based on relative clinical importance of issues

Committee Goals

Engagement: CIC committee engagement with writing projects has been good-to-excellent. Committee Member Participation: 91% active writing and 99% with active writing or reviewing.

2023-2024 Projects in Progress

  1. Ulcerative Complications after MBS
  2. Endoscopic Bariatric Procedures Review: Primary and Revisions
  3. Evidence-based Review of Enhanced Recovery After Bariatric Surgery (ERABS) Protocols
  4. Measures of Obesity/Beyond BMI – Collaboration with BMI Task Force
  5. CIC Members assigned to other Writing Groups in progress: AASM’s Sleep Apnea; University of Texas’ “Perioperative Rehabilitation and Exercise Guidelines for Bariatric Patients”, and ASMBS Bariatric Surgery Training Committee’s Bariatric Credentialing Guidelines Update
  6. Review of 2024 Call for Statements for suggestions to ECEC for 2024-2025 topics

2023-2024 Completed Projects

  1. ASMBS Position Statement on One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (OAGB) (Jan 2024)
  2. ASMBS Review: Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty and its Role in the Treatment of Obesity (Sep 2023)
  3. ASMBS Statement on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Beneficiaries of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with a Review of the Literature (Nov 2023)

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